A voice over professional and coach discusses life, love, voice overs, singing, her life in music and acting and the arts. She is a well known voice speech singing and voice over coach now in her sixth decade of living.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

New Way to Raise Money ONLINE! Dig This!

A music student, age 23, wanted to duplicate 1000 CDs of her new music album. She needed the funds to do it. She stumbled on the site "KICKSARTER," a year-old fund-raising site. It connects creative people in the arts and other areas with people willing to donate money, small or large, in return for services or goods. The music student offered a free CD for a donation of $30, a T-Shirt included with the album for $150, and those who gave $500 received a custom song. She ended up raising $7,400 and was able to go back in a recording studio and create yet another album. The site has many stories. The bottom line is that the site does NOT release any money to a recipient until their project has been funded according to the initial request amount. Then, the site first takes five percent of the monies raised. One film maker raised over $20,000 for a film about a fictitious congressman. Stories abound. Take a look. Interesting funding scheme. Wish it had been around when I owned my audio book publishing house in the 1990s!

About Me

Professional voice over talent, studio singer, songwriter and performing actor singer. Voice coach in variety of areas. Workshops worldwide.Post-graduate degrees in music, theatre, adult education, voice speech science and vocal disorders. I teach private voice speech improvement, dialect accent minimization and acquisition, voice over techniques, singing (professionals, adults only, prefer performers in mass media areas), studio singing, and career consulatant in show business and recording careers. I was an RCA recording artist with major credits in past years and can counsel songwriter singers. I owned an audio book publishing house that created many best sellers and counsel those wanting to create an audio book or narrate them. I am a Simon and Schuster audio author, reader, producer. I am an audio engineer with recording studio in Dallas where I create voiceover demos for clients who travel to me from worldwide. I also create audio projects including radio TV commercials, corporate narration and e-learning work, audio books, more. I produce webinars monthly. See my site for schedule, http://www.voicesvoices.com. I also consult by telephone and can offer tele-learning